Posts by Trygve Henriksen

Some fridges...

fits into a 19" rack... Then grab the front bezels of some old DELL servers and stick them to the front.

As those bezels are full of holes and gaps and general lack of design, grab a stack of old Hot-plug disks, cut the end with the locking arm off, connect wires to the LEDs in that piece and stick them to the door before placing the bezels.

For extra points, fit pressure transducers to the shelves and use an arduino to display the number of lagers on each shelf as a RED LED among the Green ones.

Yes, you can use a RPi to connect it to the network and show it all on a fancy website, but what's the fun in that?

Re: Locks.

That's when you use Grease instead of oil....

AAnyone who ever survived a flight with Spantax also understood this.

Re: Outlook...

Ah, may you also be a connoiseur of Alaskan comics?

https://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb301.html

Re: The TRS 80 Model 100 should have been among the stuff 'responsibly disposed of'...

I actually have an Epson EHT, can't remember the correct number. With some accessories, but no documentation. Haven't had time to search it out.

I'm more a Psion fan when it comes to handhelds... ;-)

Re: Lesson Learned?

The correct way to handle it is to tell either the crew that is on the case, or their manager, what you happened to find when you were messing about on your own time.

Let them decide if it's a fix, or tempporary patch, or just a wild shot in the dark.

Also, as this was during the slow transition from XP to Win7, it's possible they had already decided that they would use this to get he stragglers to finally update!

Re: wait till a support person arrived

This.

That half an hour may be the difference between 'barely catching the plane going vaguely in the customer's direction', and 'there's a plane heading there tomorrow'

Re: "NEVER SWITCH OFF"

I've begun posting placards in my server rooms that 'any new installs not labelled with name and function will be disconnected without warning.'

Re: Aaaaargh!

And THAT is the only thing you're supposed to look for when doing statistics on tickets; all the easily fixed 'nuisance tickets' with the same cause.

Find the worst offender, and fix the root cause, then the next worst offender and so on.

Anything else in the system is not relevant and can probably be faked anyway.

Re: One line.

Probably a bit-slice CPU.

Re: A beam in their eye... Physical Methods Trump Signs in Any Language

I have a pair of Cocoons Sidekick orange UV filter glasses I like to use when driving.

Only...

Blue paint on signs turns black, and Blue light just... disappears...

Re: So which is worse

You might want to read the wiki article about them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_14_(Norway)

Way back in the early 90s, I had a course in microcontroller tech, and the teacher told us that if one of his students had come to him with one of those first PCs as a 'project', he would have failed him.

Re: "Maintaining offline backups is expensive and a lot of boring, repetitive work."

They forced you to use DAT tapes for backups?

Those... those... FIENDS!

Re: Ahh, Team building/break the ice exercises....

I think the idea being that the team members will stop calling the people in other departments for simpering idiots or neanderthals, and actually start cooperating with them...

The only thing a Teambuilding dofus manage to get them to agree on is that the dofus needs to be taken out back and playfully rolled through a few cow patties.

Other than that, what everyone wants to do is forget everything that happened, and hope that the simpering neanderthals in the same group also does, otherwise they might have blackmail material on you.

NO ONE has yet managed to prove that Teambuilding exercises actually work!

Re: So

Manglers are easily distracted by shiny reports.

That users need to be able to actually enter data or do other operations is not something they understand.

Re: I always feel a certain nostalgia...

One of those components was the HPFS file system. M$ owns that, and IBM paid royalties from it, so every time IBM sold a license, BillG got tingly...

I believe at least some M$ marketing drones were told to FUD OS/2 as much as possible, too.

I heard one once say that HPFS was critically flawed. (He was pushing NT server 3.51... talk about flaw... )

I immediately stood up and asked when M$ was going to fix it, then since it was their product and all...

Re: Not necessarily an Osborne

He should NOT feel guilty about the guard.

It was the guard who decided to move what he believed to be a dangerous explosive device. Or some mangler or other ordered him to do it.

Had he done his job, and called it in, the bomb squad would have told him to under no circumstances toucht it. Then they'd send a team to deal with it.

Re: 14 different steps

It's England. Odds are that step 2 involves making a pot of tea instead of coffee, and 5 is 'add milk and sugar, stir and sip'.

Re: "Trust me, I know what I'm doing."

Best Seasons ending ever!

Yeah, I also have the DVD set.

I think this is imagine used on an airgapped computer sitting somewhere by itself in an otherwise secure facility. And then it's a means for malware that's already on it to use the patch cable someone were considerate enough to leave hanging on it to transmit the stolen data.

Re: Me too...

Run his COMMIT first...

Re: Bus drivers...

Are you mad?

Do you know how much soldiers get in combat pay?

It'd blow the budget within the first week!

(No, it's not all that much, but it can't be less than the pittance the school bus drivers gets.)

Re: Did someone mention ILO??

Compaq servers had so many quirks that they brought with them to HP, that ILO was a must unless you had your office right next to the server room.

Proliant 1600 with a triple PSU instead of the single?

Will halt on boot if one of the PSUs doesn't have power or is non-working for other reasons.

AAAARGH!

At least my insistence on ILO saved me from an hour-long journey to push a key.

Re: I donated some stuff to them.

You may want to check this page for the required SW... and a lot of other stuff...

https://www.jaapsch.net/psion/connect.htm

Re: Z88?

Wonderful machine.

I have 3...

2 of them are still in the cardboard 'briefcase' packaging...

Re: An AI company that can't work out how to use its own product?

Please, NO!

Every time someone mentions Asimos 3 bloody rules I want to barf!

The whole concept is so feckin flawed it's not funny.

Here's a better worded explanation than I can put up:

https://mindmatters.ai/2019/09/the-three-laws-of-robotics-have-failed-the-robots/

For a funnier, but still relevant view, read the comic FreeFall by Mark Stanley.

Re: "I can stop a car much quicker without the interference of the ABS system."

I challenge you to try the Slippery Road courses here in Norway...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnzvsRZE8CQ

When your wheels lock they create too much friction, and heat up and melts the top layer of ice so that your wheels suddenly float on top of water cushions. No 'snow buildup' will stop that.

Re: Two observations:

Trust me, it's a lifesaver. Or at least a hand-saver.

but as said, get the rechargeable with lights.

The one with 2x AAA batteries is slightly weaker, and the battery terminal design is just hopeless.

We don't see it like that...

In fact, we consider 1814 as a better year to count from. The Swedes may disagree, but then again, who gives a ... about them.

Re: New "Thing" at work

No, text from the Necronomnomnom.

Re: Quick buck

And are you willing to pay for large capacity HDDs that has been used for a year or three, in an environment you know nothing about?

I just threw out a crate of old 3.5" size HDDs(from ancient 40MB PATA, to 1TB SATA that were still 'among the living')

Just made a couple of holes with an 8mm drill bit first...

(One was an old IBM 'Deathstar' HDD... they make a funny sound when the bit hits the platter)

I would have trusted those HDDs more than random disks used in any mining rig.

Re: Demarcation

Mythbusters did an episode on that and how to get out of a car that the power line had landed on...

Very enlightening.